Health Care and Gender

Author: Charlotte Muller
ISBN: 0871546116

Health and medical services should meet individuals’ needs regardless of gender, but in both subtle and overt ways this is very often not the case. Gender biases result not only in flawed access to care but also in insufficient medical research, uninformed diagnoses, and gaps in covering critical needs.In Health Care and Gender, Charlotte Muller provides a contemporary assessment of the forces that sustain gender biases in the health and medical professions. Beginning with an analysis of gender comparisons in health care usage and adequacy of treatment, Muller discusses the experiences of many different women: working women with insurance coverage, the poor dependent on Medicaid, and the elderly. She also focuses on the issues facing women of reproductive age and shows how poverty or extremely volatile political and ethical controversy may impede their search for basic maternity and family planning services.Drawing on a large body of evidence from medical, health, and behavioral lite

Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Publish Date: 1992-02-26

Subjects: Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues, Medical / Public Health, Social Science / General, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Medicine)